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Tracy McGrady's 3 Points Premieres

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...suitable, flat pitch with proper goals. McGrady then inquires about what it would take to build a swimming pool before being told by Ismail that such a gift would be thought of as extravangant in...

Blog | September 08, 2009

Three Thoughts About Rashard Lewis and Performance-Enhancing Drugs

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...from the floor as the Magic stole Game 1)? Big Questions Football, baseball, cycling, track and field, swimming, weightlifting ... all kinds of sports have faced brutal questioning about performance-enhancing drugs. But not so much...

Blog | August 06, 2009

Three Things You Can Learn About Basketball While on Vacation

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

First of all, a huge thanks to Kevin Arnovitz for his unbelievable work hosting TrueHoop while I was on vacation last week. The man is a professional,...

Blog | July 27, 2009

Travis Outlaw's Strange Summer

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Portland small forward Travis Outlaw has been one of the NBA's success stories. He arrived in the NBA straight from high school in small-town Miss...

Blog | July 03, 2009

First Cup: Tuesday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...significant pieces (not counting draft picks). With a lot of teams cutting costs and only a few swimming in cap space, the Pistons are in a position to grab very good players -- borderline All-Stars...

Blog | June 23, 2009

A Basketball Camp in Switzerland

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Austin journalist Bruce Selcraig is a former Sports Illustrated investigative reporter and has written for The New York Times Magazine, Harper's a...

Blog | June 08, 2009

That Green NBA

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...controlled luxury hotels, even as those people's massive climate controlled luxury homes with climate controlled swimming pools sit empty thousands of miles away. It's still an industry that the vast majority...

Blog | April 03, 2009

First Cup: Wednesday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...The Detroit News: "Tayshaun Prince is making sure to get the full Olympics experience. He's attended swimming and beach volleyball -- twice. 'It's really a really fun environment and you get caught up in...

Blog | August 20, 2008

Monday Olybullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Here is the full game of the U.S. vs. Germany. Another day, another double digit win. Germany did not get it together this tournament, which must be d...

Blog | August 18, 2008

Thursday Olybullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...in that water. He's like a shark. I've never seen anyone swim like that before. Swimming never caught my eyes before I saw him. But I told him I'm going to check...

Blog | August 07, 2008

Memorial Day Mini-Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...may make people forget how incredibly hard you played all year.Kobe Bryant fake-jumping over a swimming pool of snakes in the name of selling sneakers. Much more impressive to me are the people...

Blog | May 26, 2008

Shark Attack? Or Petty Joke Theft?

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...trespassing. Gilbert: We're humans. We live on land. Sharks live in water. So if you're swimming in the water and a shark bites you, that's called trespassing. Edwards: You know what a...

Blog | August 02, 2007

Red Hot and Rollin' Film

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

There's this book out there, Red Hot and Rollin', which is a pretty magnificent anthology of writings about Portland's NBA title thirty years ago. Mat...

Blog | June 12, 2007

Tuesday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Eddie Sefko and the Dallas Morning News are expecting better things from Dirk Nowitzki: "'I think they kind of got up under his skin last night, and I...

Blog | April 24, 2007

Not Every Team Knows How to Use Super-Versatile Players

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...maximize the abilities of a unique player—Allen Iverson. The Celtics, on the other hand, are swimming in young, multidimensional talent. Unfortunately, they've shown little ability to turn this mess of young players...

Blog | February 13, 2007